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210. Calling All Control Freaks: How to Stop Overfunctioning

We Can Do Hard Things

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The Hardest Thing to Come at Me

First is the first hardest thing to come at me is some kind of pity or concern. And then softness just generally is hard. So like if John wants to address something in a soft way, I just have to recalibrate very quickly and try to get there. If he's like, I'm worried about how you're doing with X. Okay. Now you want to talk about it? Because I have to keep doing X so that I have to stop doing X. And then talk about how I feel about doing X. It just feels like it's such an extracurricular of.

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